Dokumentation 1102-2206
Eine Kollektion an mehr oder weniger
Johanna Rost
The project is about capturing the art of foreign words. Each word is unfamiliar and seems so unpronounceable that I don't read the word, I just enjoy it.
The meaning of the words recedes into the background and the writing, the font, the design, the product itself gains importance.
Food is necessary for survival. Everywhere we go we encounter them, so I decided to collect words from food packaging.
This starts a kind of mapping. Which foods do I know? Which product am I familiar with? Which foreign product can I use to cook my favourite meal from home? How do I decide which product to buy? Am I influenced by the packaging? How often do I have to look in the fridge to remember the word for the product? In what ways do some products trigger associations and thoughts?
What do you feel?
Volha Stsiapanava, Uladzislau Siarheyeu
"What do you think of Warsaw? Does it look like your hometown? Not disappointed yet?" - and other questions to which you have no answers. The city accepts you when things work out. But it knows how to turn against you at the most inopportune moment. So we suggest you don't look for easy answers, but look inside yourself, listen to your emotions. In our project we have tried to give emotions colors, to determine the sharpness of feelings, their mixing and quantity. Take a look with us at the familiar places and things that you pass by every day at work, in the store, or to meet friends. So what, what do you feel about Warsaw now?
Building the city
Adam Baník,
Anastasiia Kovalyova, Lívia Vereščáková
When you explore a new place, you form an impression. That impression is based on the people you meet and people you are exploring with. It’s the same with us, as three friends who come from the same school, we discover and explore Warsaw together. Therefore, it’s quite obvious that we form and influence our impressions individually, but altogether at the same time. That’s what we are trying to mirror in our triptych. In these three paintings we are displaying individual impressions and how they intertwine and create one general impression. In the artwork we are working with 3 layers – each representing a different layer/face of the city. Work represents hints of architecture, individual observations and most importantly the influence of people we have met. Our Warsaw exists in a world where there are only the three of us, and this world is in this painting.
Tracing March
Maria Martinuz
The project consists of 30 sheets on which the routes recorded by Google Maps were drawn each day for the month of March. For each day a section is highlighted in red and at the bottom of the page there is a thought, a feeling that arose while traveling that section of road. Since I have lived here for a short time, each street is new and each route can create different emotions and observations related to the city. The purpose of the arrangement of the sheets is to allow the observer to compare how during the month the habits and areas frequented have changed and thus visualize through the data how I have explored and experienced the city.
In the booklet you can see the area of the Warsaw map that relates to each day and the translations of the thoughts, initially in Italian.
Upholding Memories
Lina Baltruweit & Johannes Breuninger
The central element of the installation is the 1:25 model of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, taken from the Old Warsaw Miniatures Park. This museum showed buildings from pre-1945 Warsaw, many of which were destroyed during the war and never rebuilt afterwards because they were considered capitalist heritage. The large synagogue was blown up by the Nazis in 1943 after the Warsaw Uprising.
The buildings were elaborately reconstructed from photographs and plans by architects and rebuilt in great detail as miniatures. The founder of the park Rafal Kunach describes his intention thus:
"In this day and age, it is additionally important to educate people about the costs of war".
Founded in 2014, the museum had difficulties finding a place in Warsaw and had to move several times. There was no support from the city. The last location in front of the Palace of Cultures and Sciences had to close during the pandemic and is now in disrepair. A sad repetition in a small way.
Linked
Carmen Dinu, Margot Belin, María Calvo, Rocío Cruz
Just as Erasmus did, this is a portrait of how we were linked together. Of how the city of Warsaw gathered us and pushed us to unify our own ideas and heritages. Both maps represent the correlation between our homes in the capital and our homes in the countries we come from.
We used two PVC sheets of 100x70 cm and posca markers. The transparency of the materials allows us to have a different point of view of the map and helps us put together both ideas.
03-06/02-06
Susanna Bagdzinska Mierzejewska, Cristina Dinu
Exploring the city and traversing its streets is never linear.
Over time, certain everyday paths are automatically created, which we travel instinctively, intimately and without thinking, guided only by sensory memory.
Our work on four hands is delicate, subtle and personal. It is placed on top of a steel and stable structure: on a pylon that allows you to "read" logs. Don't be afraid, get in your hand and start reading them and immerse yourself in our steps.
(Susanna Bagdzinska Mierzejewska)
„Home” is a notion which the human defines it through his beliefs, feelings and memories. Similarities and differences will exist forever, but what remains almost unchanged is „me”. Me and my paths. I change too, like my environment changed, but what remains is the „way” itself, the reason. Why I am there. I remarked that my routes took most often to the faculty. The way from my „home” to the faculty. contains the same feeling that I have when I am on my way to the university in my country. Many roads remind me of home only because of what I think, feel, remember and do similar things with what I was doing at home.
(Cristina Dinu)
